北大经院工作坊第808场
The power of the family in times of pandemic: Cross-country evidence from 93 countries
经院-全健院
“健康与劳动经济学”工作坊
主讲人：顾鸣 (Assistant Professor of Applied Economics, Division of Social Sciences and Global Health Research Center at Duke Kunshan University)
主持老师：（北大全健院）吕蓓妮
参与老师：
（北大全健院）刘国恩、潘聿航、林昊翔、孙宇、杨佳楠
（北大经院）秦雪征、石菊、姚奕、王耀璟、袁野、梁远宁、庄晨、Kevin Devereux
时间：2023年12月27日（周三）10：00-11：30
线下地点：北京大学经济学院107会议室
线上形式：腾讯会议
会议号：993-576-856
会议密码：231227
主讲人简介：
Ming Gu is an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics in the Division of Social Sciences and an affiliate of Global Health Research Center and Center for the Study of Contemporary China at Duke Kunshan University. She earned a B.A. in economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Prior to relocating to China, she was a senior consultant at a Los Angele-based economics consulting firm, a research specialist at the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University, and a PhD intern at the Department of Economics and Social Affairs at the United Nations Headquarters. While Dr. Gu’s research interests encompass health economics, education economics, labor economics and political economy, the overarching goal is to investigate the process of preference formation globally. Understanding which factors affect people’s attitudes and economic behaviors will enable researchers to better explain socioeconomic disparity, a universal challenge faced by many economies. Since joining DKU, she has been awarded a “Shuangchuang Prestigious Ph.D.” Award by Jiangsu Province, China, and have participated in a project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
摘要：
COVID-19 is more likely to cause serious medical consequences among the elderly. Previous studies have shown that intergenerational transmission plays a key role in COVID-19-related infection and fatality. This paper utilized two large-scale multinational surveys to uncover the importance of family ties in infection prevention among 93 countries. We measured country-level family ties with emphasis on respondents’ view of their parents using the World Values Survey, and elicited individual health behavior attitudes from a panel study conducted each month started in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic between March 2020 and July 2021. We find that in countries and regions with stronger family ties, people show more willingness for non-pharmaceutical interventions and vaccines; moreover, young people are more supportive of mandatory vaccination. The effect of family ties was especially salient before COVID-19 vaccines became available and was persistent before the global vaccination coverage reached 25%. Our results are robust across several specifications.
北大经院工作坊第809场
Migrate to elude: The impact of soybean import shock in China
国际经济学与实证产业组织工作坊
主讲人：林发勤（中国农业大学经济管理学院教授）
主持老师：（北大经院）莫家伟
参与老师：
（北大经院）杨汝岱、田巍、刘政文、吴群锋
（北大新结构）王歆、徐铭梽
时间：2023年12月27日（周三）10：00-11：30
地点：北京大学经济学院305会议室
主讲人简介：
林发勤，经济学双博士，中国农业大学经济管理学院教授、博士生导师、农产品国际贸易研究中心主任，China Economic Review副主编，国家社科重大、自科重点、北京社科习中心重大项目首席专家。已在Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics， European Economic Review，Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization，Journal of Comparative Economics, World Development, Economic Inquiry, 《经济研究》，《管理世界》国内外期刊等发表了近百篇学术论文, 其中SSCI收录近60篇。出版畅销书《你应该知道的国际贸易》（销量2万本）。
摘要：
As the largest soybean importing country, this study analyzes the migration effect of soybean import shock in China. Exploiting the main soybean producing areas, the three northeastern provinces in China as our sample and using population Census data, we constructed prefecture-level soybean import shock and individual level migration variables. We found a large out of migration effect caused by soybean import shock: 13% of the rural migration of northeastern regions over 2001-2015 can be explained by the soybean import shock. The shock reduces (increases) soybean planting (land renting) activities, leading rural residents to seek opportunities in other more developed regions mainly by becoming migrant workers. Such migration-to-elude effect is largely driven by low educated and mature farmers.
北大经院工作坊第810场
Reason For Treason
经济史工作坊
主讲人：徐志浩（清华大学社会科学学院助理教授）
主持老师：（北大经院）赵一泠、Mark Hup
参与老师：
（北大经院）郝煜、管汉晖、周建波
（北大光华）颜色、李波
时间：2023年12月28日（周四）10:00-11:00
地点：北京大学经济学院305会议室
主讲人简介：
徐志浩，加州大学洛杉矶分校经济学博士（2021），清华大学社会科学学院助理教授，中国经济史学会第八届理事会理事。主要研究方向在金融经济史与政治经济学、宏观经济学的交叉领域。主持教育部人文社科项目（青年）、北京市社科基金（青年）、用友基金会“商的长城”项目等课题。
摘要：
We compile a novel and complete data set of over 2800 high-ranked Kuomintang military officers on whom an official rank of general or colonel was conferred by the Nationalist government in 1936 and use historical archives and books to recover their career paths during the War of Resistance against Japan from 1937 to 1945. We examine factors motivating officers’ defection to the Japanese invaders or their collaborationists. This research provides many implications extended to cases of officers moving to the other side in the following Chinese Civil War, which we are also investigating.
供稿：科研与博士后办公室
美编：时之
责编：度量、雨禾、雨田
